Who you are

- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with progression into staff-level technical leadership

- Strong Python fundamentals with production experience in Django or similar Python web frameworks

- Demonstrated experience owning a platform or framework layer — not just a service — that multiple internal teams built on top of

- Strong backend engineering foundation with hands-on experience building frontend components that other engineering teams consume, extend, and build on top of

- Track record of setting multi-year technical strategy for a platform or major system, with evidence of the strategy shipping and delivering impact

- Track record of growing engineers to the next level — mentoring, coaching, and leading their technical development toward senior and staff-level impact

- Familiarity with Go, for collaboration with the SmartGrid computation engine team

- Experience designing interfaces for AI agent consumption — tool-use schemas, MCP-style protocols, structured function-calling interfaces

- Familiarity with columnar data formats (Apache Arrow, Parquet) and OLAP storage engines (ClickHouse, DuckDB, or similar)

- Working knowledge of DAG-based or dependency-graph-driven computation systems

- Experience designing SDKs or self-service developer platforms consumed by multiple internal teams

- Experience at a B2B SaaS company during periods of significant growth or platform expansion

- Familiarity with sales performance management, incentive compensation, or adjacent enterprise domains

What the job involves

- We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to own the technical direction of that evolution — a technical leader with strong engineering chops who embodies CaptivateIQ's values of ownership, bias toward action,



and delivering real impact.

You'll set the architectural direction for how the platform evolves, drive the multi-year technical strategy (with your EM and senior EPD leadership as partners, not gatekeepers), and make the tradeoffs that determine how product teams build on top of it

- It's a highly cooperative role — you'll work daily with cross-functional partners (Product, Design, EM) and with the product engineering teams building on the platform. You'll also partner closely with the SmartGrid team — CaptivateIQ's proprietary DAG-based computation engine that powers the framework underneath — helping shape architectural direction for the Modeling Platform Pillar as a whole. You'll drive technical alignment across teams, and invest deeply in coaching and developing engineers toward senior and staff-level impact

- Own the technical direction of the modeling platform's framework and SDK layer, partnering closely with the SmartGrid team on the underlying computation engine

- Own and evolve the platform's framework, SDK, and interfaces — including agentic/tool-based interfaces for AI consumers — turning today's API surface into a self-service framework with the extensibility points that let internal teams build modeling products fast

- Make the platform-level tradeoffs that shape it: what belongs in the framework vs. a product team's responsibility, build vs. buy, refactor vs. patch,



flexibility vs. opinionated speed

- Operate with high ownership and autonomy — drive ambiguous or contested decisions forward by pulling in the right stakeholders early rather than letting them stall, and own the outcomes months later, good or bad

- Set the multi-year technical strategy for the modeling platform, in partnership with your EM, PM, Design, and senior EPD leadership

- Drive technical alignment across teams — build the credibility and relationships that align consuming product teams around the platform's roadmap

- Stay hands-on as a backend-primary fullstack engineer — the platform spans backend APIs, SDKs, and the frontend components product teams extend and build modeling experiences on top of

- Grow and develop engineers on the team — coach toward senior and staff-level impact, set the technical bar through design leadership and review standards, and provide architectural guidance that scales beyond your own output

Benefits

- 100% of medical, dental, and vision covered including 75% for dependents

- Unlimited vacation days and quarterly mental health days so you can recharge

- $1,000 to explore your dream destination on your work anniversary

- $500 annual professional development stipend to continue growing and learning

- $500 home office stipend to decorate your home office

- $1,000 caretaker stipend to make sure our parent colleagues are being supported

- Virtual team lunches to keep you connected

- 401k plan to participate in and save towards the future

- Newest hardware and tools for the job

- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to support and celebrate the shared identities and life experiences of communities within CaptivateIQ

📌 Staff Software Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 CaptivateIQ
📍 Toronto